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| nonfiction | writing that deals with real people, events, and places without changing any facts |
| realistic fiction | stories with events that could really happen; characters face problems in their lives that they must solve |
| biography | the life story of someone written by someone else |
| autobiography | the life story of someone written by him or herself |
| science fiction | a type of fantasy that deals with the future as changed by science and may take place in space or on other planets |
| myth | a story that usually explains something about the world and involves gods and superheroes |
| tall tale | a kind of folk tale that uses exaggertion and is often about a legendary hero |
| short story | a fictional narrative (story) that is somewhere between 3 and 15 pages long |
| legend | a story, usually based on some historical fact, that has been handed down from one generation to the next, and becomes more fantastic with retelling |
| novella | longer than a short story, but shorter than a novel |
| historical fiction | story based on real history but with fictional main characters |
| fantasy | imaginative writing that carries the reader into an invented world where the laws of naure as we know them do not operate |
| prose | any writing that is not poetry |
| fiction | a story that is made up |
| poetry | a kind of often rhythmic, rhyming writing that uses figurative language and imagery to appeal to emotions and imagination |
| fable | a very short story that teaches a lesson or moral, a practical lesson about how to succeed in life |
| novel | a long fictional story that fills a book |
| humor | contains surprises and the effects of opposite expectations, nonsense and silliness |
| folk tale | a story with no known author, originally passed on from one generation to another by word of mouth |
| mystery | a story in which characters try to discover an important piece of information which is kept hidden until the climax |
